When professional photographers descended upon
Orlando, Fla., in February for the 2002 Photo Marketing Association’s
International Conference & Trade Show, there were plenty of offerings in the
digital photography realm.
For Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. Inc., the show served
as the venue for debuting its latest professional digital camera, the FinePix S2
Pro. The FinePix S2 Pro is the successor to the FinePix S1 Pro for professional
photographers.
The single-lens-reflex digital camera builds on
the FinePix S1 Pro’s reputation for picture color and detail, and offers
professional photographers control over the editing, transferring and storing of
high-resolution images.
The FinePix S2 Pro is the successor to Fujifilm’s
FinePix S1 Pro for professional photographers.
Photo courtesy of Fuji Photo Film
U.S.A
The FinePix S2 Pro features Fujifilm’s Super
charge-coupled device sensor system for professional photographers. With 6.17
million effective pixels, the digital camera can produce an image file with
4,256-by-2,848 (12.1 million) recorded pixels for color and detail. The new
camera also features RAW mode, which delivers images before they have been
processed by the camera’s internal algorithmic settings, enabling
photographers to experiment with their photographs as they wish.
The FinePix S2 Pro also offers users the choice
of a dual-storage media option: SmartMedia and IBM’s Microdrive, which when
inserted into the camera’s CompactFlash (Card Type II) slot, allow
photographers out in the field to take a large number of photographs without
running out of storage space.
The camera incorporates a dual PC interface for
increased workflow and fast transfer of large image files from the camera to a
Macintosh or PC via FireWire or a USB interface.
The FinePix S2 Pro has four shooting modes, four
exposure modes, five variable program modes and nine modes for white balance.
The camera features a Nikon F mount and accepts
every AF Nikkor and most manual AI or AI-S Nikkor lenses. The camera has a top
shutter speed of 1/4,000 of a second and continuous shooting of approximately
two frames per second up to a total of seven frames.
Photographers can record images at resolutions of
4,256-by-2,848 pixels, 3,024-by-2,016 pixels, 2,304-by-1,536 pixels and
1,440-by-960 pixels. Images can be recorded in TIFF-RGB, RAW and JPEG formats.
Fine and normal compression modes are included within the JPEG file format and
images can be displayed on the camera’s 1.8-inch low-temperature polysilicon
TFT display.
The FinePix S2 Pro will be available for purchase
later this year. The suggested retail price is $3,495.
